Give the advantage of tissue culture
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1. Tissue culture is a very fast technique. Thousands of planters can be produced in a few weeks time from a small amount of plant tissue.
2. The new plants produced by tissue culture are disease free.
3. Tissue culture can grow plants round the year, irrespective of weather or season.
4. Very little space is needed for developing new plants by tissue culture
Answer:
Advantages of tissue culture are:
A large number of clones can be produced from a single parent plant.
It enables us to select and culture the desirable characteristic traits.
It has short production time with long generation time.
Reproduction of plants is possible even in the absence of seeds or necessary external pollinators to produce seeds.
It frees us from the restrictions of growing plants only in certain seasons.
Endangered plant species on the verge of extinction can be saved with the tissue culture procedure.